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I have been using various cards for games that play live music/video, and for a GPS program that does error checking on the map database during startup. I can verify that actual read usage is proportional to the Pocket Mechanic read benchmarks.
There is something strange with the I/O of different devices for different cards. In general, faster cards are faster in a Pocket PC, but actual performance can defy the speed rating on the card. I look forward to benchmarking my new A-Data 2GB 50X SD card and comparing it to the 150X of the same brand.
For cards you use for pure reading on your pocket PC, for instance multimedia, all you have to worry about is good read performance.
But for a card you install programs on, consider write speed as well. If you close a program and turn off the device too fast before the program saves all it's data, you could have corrupted information on the flash media. I always leave my PPC "cool down" at least 15 seconds after closing programs, since then I don't have corruption errors.
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Last edited by EngrPaul; 03-10-06 at 10:18 PM.
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